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Introduction
In 2006, AOL published a dataset containing 20 million search queries from 650,000 users, intending it for research use. Although the data was anonymized by replacing usernames with unique identification numbers, reporters from The New York Times were able to identify individuals based on the content of their search queries, revealing personal and sensitive information.
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